Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Liechtenstein and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Busters to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Theoretical Girls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mark Hollis,
Pierre Henry,
Scratch Acid,
Lucky Dragons,
MDC,
Little Man,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scion,
Newcleus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Groovy Waters,
Peter & Gordon,
JFA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Fire Engines,
The Gun Club,
Donny Hathaway,
Funky Four + One,
Quadrant,
Derrick Morgan,
Ten City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Buzzcocks,
The Stooges,
The Toasters,
The Barracudas,
Soft Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Toni Rubio,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Residents,
Drexciya,
Rekid,
Lou Reed,
Amon Düül,
Freddie Wadling,
Fugazi,
Essential Logic,
Jacob Miller,
Moebius,
Monks,
Skarface,
Gong,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Echospace,
Sonic Youth,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bob Dylan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Oneida,
Sun City Girls,
Bluetip,
The Dead C,
Skaos,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mars,
Deadbeat,
The Golliwogs,
James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks, James White and The Blacks.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.